Sunday, July 3, 2016

THIS ESSAY BY STEVEN GAAL REVEALS HOW LEE OSWALD WAS FRAMED AS THE 'OWNER' OF A RIFLE HE NEVER ORDERED

(As posted at The Education Forum in rebuttal to Warren Commission defenders)
Purchasing the Rifle
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It has long been held that a key piece of evidence in the guilt of Lee
Oswald is documentation that he bought a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and
the .38

YES, '7.65 mm MAUSER' HAS BEEN STAMPED on some Mausers!

pistol. In his possessions was a found a receipt dated March 12,
for the money order he allegedly used to purchase the rifle (no
receipts were ever found for the pistol in his belongings). The purchase
amount was $21.45. This was for one rifle with a four power scope, but
no clip or bullets. The letter had a postmark of 10:30 AM. So, Oswald
had a window of 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM to purchase the money order and mail
it off.

One important fact to remember is Oswald’s post office box was
authorized for his name only. He ordered everything under his alias, A.
Hidell. Any piece of mail coming to his box with the alias would be
marked “addressee unknown, return to sender.” Keep this in mind for as
we shall see later, the box plays an important role in Oswald’s
acquiring of the weapons.

NO 'HIDELL' ON LEE'S P O BOX IN DALLAS

Another hitch is that Oswald’s work records show he was employed that
morning at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovell with no absences. The nearest post
office was 11 blocks away. A long walk back and forth for a man with no
car. Even more curious is the postmark date has zone 12 listed on it.
Zone 12 was roughly two miles away in downtown Dallas. Since it was
established that the money order was purchased in zone 3, who would buy a
money order at one office and then travel two miles to another one to
mail it? Plus, Oswald didn’t have the time even if he had a friend to
drive him there and back.
The order arrives at Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago the next
morning [sent via Airmail: the Warren Commission was told that an overnight train could accomplish this, without mentioning that the order was posted TOO LATE to be collected, sorted and placed on the train that came early enough to make that possible. JVB]. Very good for pre-FedEx days! Kline’s
reportedly deposited the money order in its bank account on March 13.
However, under closer inspection the money order is missing many of the
bank routing stamps which would show its path through the banking
system. Only the endorsement stamp of Klein’s is there; it’s missing the
stamps from the First National Bank of Chicago, the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, and finally, the Federal Postal Money Order Center in
Kansas City. None of those three routing stamps are on the back of the
money order. The stamps have to be there to show that each bank pays
only once, if not you have a mess on your hands. Other money orders that
Oswald bought, such as the ones he used to pay off his State Dept.
loan, all have these routing stamps. So this is most unusual and never
investigated by the Warren Commission, the FBI, or any other agency. It
certainly gives weight to the idea that Oswald’s payment never made it
through the banking system.
One problem with the case and which is largely ignored, was in the spring
of 1963 Klein’s was only selling the 36” model of the Mannlicher-Carcano.
This is clearly shown in ads they had running in various sporting
magazines. The rifle found on the sixth floor near the sniper’s nest
was the 40” model. Kline’s was not selling that model in March of
1963.
Adding to that, the FBI went through Klein’s microfilm records and
found no sale of a Mannlicher-Carcano with a serial number of C2766 for
March of 1963 or any month in that year. They went back a year and
never found one sold with that matching serial number in 1962 either.
It seems to have disappeared from the inventory.
However, there are several accounting records with the amount of
$21.45 listed. One entry is for March, 1963, but another for February
15th. One is listed under the heading, “checks.” But checks are a
different type of financial instrument than a money order and should not
be listed under that heading. There is also a listing for “other
banks” but what banks are those? There is no serial numbers identified
for the amount of $21.45. It could be C2766 or somebody else’s order.
It should be noted that Klein’s went out of business in 1973 and its
remaining financial records were destroyed. Also, many accounting
records on microfilm disappeared while in FBI custody (Armstrong,
p.475).
What is known is Klein’s received a shipment of rifles (carton #3766)
and Mannlicher-Carcano, C2766, in that shipment. Also, it was stated
by Louis Feldsott, President of Crescent Firearms (wholesaler) in a
sworn affidavit to the Warren Commission that he found a record of a
sale of a Mannlicher-Carcano, C2766 to Klein’s Sporting Goods, Inc., for
June 18, 1962.

Affidavit of Louis Feldsott, President of Crescent Firearms.
June of 1962 is an important date. It’s the same month Oswald, his
wife and child, traveled back to the USA from the Soviet Union. His DOD
ID card expires that year (sidebar–his mother’s tax returns are sealed
from 1956, ending in 1962.). Apparently, one must conclude that
somebody created false paperwork to connect Oswald to the

back of money order

rifle, from
Klein’s Sporting Goods accounting to bogus money order missing it
routing track.
(It should be noted the original money order was found in the
National Archives by one of the employees there, Robert Jackson.
Jackson was never interviewed by the FBI in regards to how he found it.
How it made it there is unknown. Oswald’s receipt was found in his
personal possessions but that is suspect because of the all the
difficulties already mentioned.)The Controversy With Post Office Delivery
It’s been implied by some researchers, such as John Armstrong (Harvey
and Lee) that Oswald’s P. O. Box was authorized for his name only and
any mail arriving with another name, in this case his Hidell alias
would result in a return to sender. This makes getting his gun shipment
to him problematic to say the least. The Warren Commission knew this
and simply stated in the final report that, “It is not known whether the
application for post office box 2915 listed ‘A. Hidell’ was a person
entitled to receive mail at this box.” They had the original
application, published in evidence volume 19, page 286. While it lists
Lee Oswald as the applicant there is no authorization for mail under his
name only.
There are other issues at play to further complicate this besides the
mail box. [NOTE by JVB: the Warren Commission was told by Holmes, the Postal Inspector, that a note --that there was a package in Lee Oswald's box -- could have been possible, so Oswqald could ask for the rifle, but it would have been illegal to hand over a RIFLE for "Hidell" to Lee Oswald, who could presumably take the rifle for himself. That fact makes this excuse by the postmaster absurd.].
One of the postal regulations at the time required that
anybody purchasing a firearm had to fill out and sign a 2162 form. Not
only the buyer but the seller as well. This form was to be kept on file
for four years. This form was never found on either end, from buyer or
shipper. The FBI never requested it and Klein’s never volunteered a
copy. Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes told the Warren Commission
that it basically didn’t matter than Oswald could have received the
rifle under his alias. Interestingly, Holmes had been monitoring
Oswald’s mail for up to a year since he was receiving subversive
materials in the mail (i.e., FPCC and other communist literature) but
couldn’t tell the Warren Commission that Oswald had received a package
with a gun in it.
Why didn’t he know? Oswald’s box was basically
flagged. Oddly, Holmes apparently never mentioned that Oswald would
have to have filled out the aforementioned 2162 form if that were the
case.
All indications are that Oswald did not pick up the rifle package at
the Post Office in Dallas. There is no paperwork to prove it and no
witnesses to the fact.The Smith & Wesson Pistol
If the weirdness with rifle is not enough, enter the .38 caliber pistol
that Oswald allegedly used to kill Dallas police officer J. D. Tippet.
Sold from Seaport Traders, Oswald [supposedly] took order of a snub nosed Smith
&Wesson .38. Before he could order it he would be required under
Texas law to get a “certificate of good character” from either the
Justice of the Peace or a District Court Judge. This would be hard to do
since he was ordering the pistol under his Alek Hidell alias. Imagine
applying for a certificate verifying your character using a phony name!
Apparently, he never did. The certificate would have to have been shown to the
shipper before the firearm was released to the buyer.
Like the Mannlicher-Carcano, there is not a lot of solid documentary
proof that Oswald bought the pistol. There is one invoice (#70638)
saying the gun was shipped COD via Railway Express Agency to a A. J.
Hidell. This particular invoice is a copy--the original was never
obtained by the FBI. It also states that it was shipped to his post
office box address, which of course can’t be done and was shipped to the REA
office for pick-up. The FBI could have checked the bank records of both
Seaport Traders and REA but never did. [Holmes, the Postal Inspector, insinuated that the rifle and the revolver came to the same P.O. Box--JVB]
When a shipment would arrive at REA it was common procedure to send a
postcard alerting the buyer the gun had arrived. Once again, since
Oswald had a post office box authorized in his name only, he would never
have seen the postcard. It would have been marked “returned to sender”
like his rifle should have been. Researcher John Armstrong looked into
this in great detail and found that a phone call would determine if an
order arrived at REA. No ID was required to show up and pay the COD
charge and retrieve the package. Anybody could have appeared at the
office and paid for the pistol.
There are no receipts of any kind that were found in Oswald’s
personal belongings. No invoices, no postcard alerting the arrival of
the shipment, no receipt for paying of COD charges...nothing. Oswald
obtained a leather holster and bullets for it but no receipts for any of
those items either.
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In Summary
Here are the major points covered:
•Post office box address only authorized for his name Lee Oswald.
Anything sent with another name (as the rifle allegedly was) would be
marked return to sender.
•Money Order not marked with proper routing stamps proving his path through the banking system.
•Work records at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovell show Oswald was employed at the time the MO was allegedly purchased and mailed.
•No finger prints found on the MO or the order coupon.
•MO eventually found in the National Archives in Washington, DC rather than the final resting place in Kansas City, MO.
•No 2162 form ever found from the buyer or the shipper.
•Oswald ordered the 36” model but apparently possessed the 40” model not for sale at Klein’s Sporting Goods at the time of sale.
•Klein's financial records did not list a sale of a rifle with C2766 in
March of 1963 but instead, June of 1962–when Oswald could not
possibility have ordered it and spent part of that month out of the
country.
•No “certificate of good character” acquired for use in receiving the .38 handgun.
•Both the rifle and pistol are different models than the ones he ordered.
How do we resolve all of this? Evidently, somebody else bought the guns
and fabricated a false paper trial linking it all to Oswald. The
missing routing stamps on the back of money order indicate that it was
most likely never deposited in Klein’s bank account and even the VP of
the company could not verify it was deposited. Oswald’s work records
show he never left work the morning of March 12 when he is supposed to
have mailed the order to Klein’s for the rifle. When means he couldn’t
have done it. In regards to the .38 revolver, that is even more murky
and nearly undocumented. Only one receipt is in existence and it is a
copy. Oswald himself may not have been aware of the set up that was
going on behind his back. If he did he never told a soul. The guilty
man has been framed once again.
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Sources: Newman, John, Oswald and the CIA; Armstrong, John, Harvey
and Lee; McKnight, Gerald, Breach of Trust; Warren Commission Report;
Douglass, James, JFK and the Unspeakable; www.ctka.net (Probe Magazine
article archive); www.history-matters.com [slightly edited for spelling by JVB]

Saturday, June 25, 2016

This
is what 4905 Magazine St. looked like in 1963. It is the small
apartment with overhead sunscreens and the fenced-ij front yard, set
back from the road. At the front it is gated, and you can see the white
mailbox there for 4905. The big part of the house to which it is
attached held 4907 (to the right--note the big white mailbox) and 4909
to the left. Behind it was 4911.
All four addresses had their own
mailboxes (even though Lee used 4907 for mail, he did so to protect his
Russian-born wife and child... my critics try to say that Lee had no
mailbox of his own. This was not true, though he did not place that
address on his correspondence. 4907 was EMPTY until mid-July, when Mr.
and Mrs. Eric Rogers moved in. Mrs. Rogers was ill and could do very
little. Lee paid Mr. Rogers' utility bill, which went up about 30%
after Mr. and Mrs. Rogers moved in. Prior to that, lee used 4907 as a
kind of office, as it was vacant (*I have that reference from the Polk
Directory). When Lee left in September, the Rogers' utility
bill went in the red by mid-month, and Lee was later accused by the
Warren Commission of being a deadbeat for not paying it, even though we
know from the Rogers' testimony that they continued to live in the
apartment and were still there in 1964 when they were interviewed by the
Commission. They obviously had to start paying that utility bill
themselves. My critics try to say that Lee never paid the utility bill
for thje Rogers and that I have blackened the Rogers' name. Rogers did
not get a job until the end of September, when he began working for
Meal-a-Minute. Lee did not use the address of 4907 publicly
until he began handing out FPCC Hands Off Cuba flyers at the Trade Mart,
as I recall. He was not about to put 4905 on them, where his wife and
child lived in that set-back apartment that was all safely fenced in.
But from the beginning -- even when vacant-- all mail to the Oswalds
came to 4907. This was at the height of the Cold War, and mail from the
USSR, The Daily Worker, etc. was coming to that vacant apartment and was
not connected in the postman's mind to 4907. Then the Rogers moved in.
However, Lee still kept his mail coming to 4907, but obviously, the
Rogers needed to have some incentive to keep receiving such mail. Their
utility bill got paid and they allowed the mail to come to their
address. This simple arrangement is not believed by my critics.
According to them, for some reason unknown to normal people, they insist
that all mail to 4905 AND 4907 went ONLY to 4907, the vacant apartment,
. When the Warren Commission asked Mr. Rogers about this mail problem.
Rogers had this to say: Mr. Liebeler. You lived right next door to Oswald? Mr. Rogers. My apartment was in the front and my window was fight next--near his apartment. Mr. Liebeler. You met Oswald and came to know him? Did you ever meet him? Mr. Rogers. No; I never met him. He didn't bid the time to anyone. Mr. Liebeler. Did you talk to him or anything? Mr. Rogers. No; never did. Mr. Liebeler. Did you know what his name was? Mr. Rogers. Just by mail coming in the box on the front. Mr. Liebeler. Did you ever talk to his wife? Mr. Rogers. She spoke Russian. She did bid the time of day, that's all, but he didn't. He wouldn't bid the time to no one. Mr. Liebeler. Mr. Liebeler. Now do you remember anybody else that visited Oswald at his apartment? Mr. Rogers.
Probably at the time they had this--you know--Fair Play for Cuba,
something like that. I think they were radio interviewers, I think.
Looked like local people. Didn't look like--heard him saying something
about wanting to play on radio. That's all." NOTE THAT ERIC ROGERS
KNEW ABOUT "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA." HOW? At one point Lee plastered some
signs all over his porch and Mrs. Garner told him to take them down. But
he uses 'radio interviewers' -- plural-- when only one person ever
admitted coming to Lee's apartment. He had to ask at Eric Rogers' home,
because the only address he had was for 4907. Later in the same
testimony, Eric Rogers says that a mailman 'brought a big package in"
for Lee Oswald-- He says it this way:
Mr. Liebeler. Did you ever see any rifle or firearms of any type in his possession at that time?
Mr. Rogers. No; I never. We did see one time some the mailman
brought a big package in. I wouldn't say what it was, of course. I guess
they checked that through the mail. Mr. Liebeler. When was that? Mr. Rogers. It was in the summer, some time before he left, somewhere around that time.
The words "Brought a big package in" sounds like a delivery to the door
of the Oswald's, having to go through the fenced-in yard straight to
their apartment. Rogers guesses that "they checked that through the
mail."
Mr. Rogers accidentally shows that he knows a lot about Lee getting ready to move, for he says this:
Mr. Rogers. He left that following evening. I figured he was
moving. I don't know. If he was moving, he was supposed to tell the
landlord. Mr. Liebeler. Did he talk to the landlord about it? Mr. Rogers.
No; but she knew about it. He didn't talk to her. He didn't talk to
nobody. He would give you the money and wouldn't say nothing. He was
quiet himself, that's all. HOW DID MR. ROGERS KNOW THAT LEE DIDN'T TALK TO THE LANDLORD, BUT SHE 'KNEW ABOUT IT'? Any comments?
Marina and Ruth Paine used the 4907 address to writ to each other.
All Russian materials came to 4907. The flyers said 4907. Yet it is
certain that lee lived at 4905. I contend that he could have had his
mail directed to 4905 but did not do so to protect his family. This is
also why he placed "4907 Magazine Street" on the Hands Off Cuba flyers.. My critics try to say that all mail came to 4907 anyway and that the utility bill paid for 4907 was really for 4905.
I was there and I hope that common sense will guide you as to the
real reason that the utility bill went into the red by the end of
September when Lee left. The bill was NOT for BOTH 4907 AND 4905 as
these people try to tell you. Lee paid the bill because he was using the
vacant apartment as an office. By having the Rogers move in, Lee was
able to place '4907' on the flyers without having to use 4905 instead.
Lee paid the utility bill at 4907 in May, June, July, August and part of
September, even though Eric Rogers said this:
Mr. Liebeler. When did you move there? Mr. Rogers. It was around in the in July, around July.
These people have to prove that the Rogers paid their utility bill for
4907 for at least 2 weeks in July, for all of August, and of course for
all of September all the way to July 21, 1964 when Eric Rogers stated
that he was still living at 4907. Instead, they insist that Lee Oswald
paid on 4905 by paying for the 4907 utility bill. It seems that
"anything goes" no matter how absurd, if only it can be used to
discredit me. SEE THE ATTACHED STATEMENT THAT LEE OSWALD WAS RESPONSIB
LE FOR THE UTILITY BILL AT 4907, EVEN THOUGH THE ROGERS WERE LIVING
THERE, AND THAT HE LEFT THE BILL AT 4907 UNPAID IN SEPTEMBER, AND
THEREFORE WAS A DEADBEAT, below... For objecting to this false
statement, I am attacked on Facebook and online with posts defending
poor old Mr. Rogers as a truth-teller. Sure he was. Just as Kerry
Thornley was. Just as Marina Oswald was. Just as Ruth Paine was..
I won't be here forever to defend the truth. Share this. Pass it on!
It matters! This is an example pof how facts that prove who lee Oswald
really was are being twisted right before our eyes, today, by armchair
'researchers' who basically object to everything I say, but who
themselves do nothing to to exonerate that innocent man. They are
obstructing justice for our fallen president, and with my last breath, i
come against that. To those of you who read this: SAVE IT, SHARE
IT, AND SHOW TO INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. thank you for whatever you do to spread the truth. JVB

Comments

Reuel Smithalso, what about the statement "he would give you the money.."?

Judyth Bakeryes...
Lee said he gave the Rogers money for watching out for Marina and his
little girl, in that people came to THEM inquiring for Lee, due to THEIR
address being printed on the HANDS OFF CUBA flyers. See this: